Rich Text to Plain Text

Rich Text to Plain Text

Paste something you copied from Word, Google Docs, Outlook or a web page, and get back the words with nothing attached: no fonts, no colours, no tracked-change markup, no invisible spans carrying a theme from a document you have never opened.

Why this is not the same as pasting into Notepad

Notepad takes the clipboard's plain-text flavour, which the source application wrote - and applications write it inconsistently. Tables arrive as one cell per line, list bullets turn into stray characters, and link text loses its URL entirely. This reads the formatted flavour instead and lays the text out from the structure: table rows stay on one line with tabs between the cells, blocks stay on their own lines, and you can keep link URLs if you want them.

The two options

Keep link URLs in brackets writes each link astext (https://example.com), which is what you want when the destination cannot carry links. Collapse onto one line removes every line break, for single-line fields, CSV cells and search boxes.

Nothing is uploaded

The conversion happens in the page. What you paste never leaves the tab, which matters more than usual here - the reason people strip formatting is often that the document came from somewhere they should not be sending it.

Related tools

• Rich Text to Markdown - keep the structure, lose the markup.
• Rich Text to HTML - clean HTML instead of plain text.
• HTML to Plain Text - if you already have the HTML.